New Features

Create exams in risr/assess automatically from risr/apply

Create written exams automatically based on your exam blueprints. Once candidates have completed their application in risr/apply, you can auto-create a new exam based on your existing exam blueprint and schedule them into sessions or you can place them into an existing exam of your choice.

Details regarding the scheduling of written exams from risr/apply can be found in the risr/apply knowledge base

Create on-demand tests and practice exams automatically from risr/apply

Offer the ability for candidates to book onto and take an individual exam immediately. An exam is automatically created in risr/assess based on your exam blueprint and the candidates are then directed to risr/assess to sit their test or exam, and delivered their results automatically once completed.

Details on how to create on-demand exams automatically from your risr/apply booking forms can be found in the risr/apply knowledge base

Please contact your risr/ team for a demonstration of the functionality.

or join us at the webinar

Title: Transforming the Candidate Experience: Test Prep, Application Management and Assessment
Date: Thursday, June 19th - 2:00 PM BST | 9:00 AM EDT
Description: Join us for a dynamic webinar exploring how to support candidates from application through assessment, and how new tools are transforming test preparation. Learn how integrated journeys improve engagement and how smarter, adaptive prep solutions can boost outcomes. Ideal for education and assessment professionals seeking to enhance candidate experience and success.
Registration Link: https://risr-global.zoom.us/meeting/register/FeFy2uyJRGCs3YVryN-9BA

MAA item scoring

• In addition to the existing scoring method of Partial credit, 2 new scoring methods are now available; All-or-nothing, Any-correct. Details regarding all the MAA scoring methods can be found in the risr/assess knowledge base.

Improvements

AI Item Generator Improvements

• The AI item generator, which is currently available through risr/labs, now facilitates style guides, meaning that you can choose how you wish your items to be styled, feed it into the item generator and all questions generated will adhere to your guide. More details can be found in the risr/assess knowledge base.

  • The AI item generator will conduct a compliance check with your submitted style guide.

  • You can submit the source document as a PDF when creating the items

  • You can create vignettes

Filtering component improvements

• Improvements to the Search and Filter functions have been made to enhance finding items according to blueprint tagging.

• Performance improvements for restricted users and of the filtering

Other improvements

• If you do not need the marshal role, it can now be set to optional

• Number of downloads can be set on the exam blueprint or on the exam settings.

8.16.2

Jun 23, 2025

Bug fixes

• DHR-6265 DK-4012 Reverted the "Optimised prepare_examinations so it's much faster for large exams" because there is some issue causing items added to exam in a wrong order. The fix will be part of another release

8.16.1

Jun 19, 2025

Bug fixes

• Double-clicking a DICOM thumbnail in the resource library generates single view of the DICOM image

• Responsive text on forms pages

• Fixed the rounding helper method

• Item answer validation for EMQ, MTF, VSAQ and PVSA added

• When item max score has been changed using Criteria admin (changed max possible answer value), the change is propagated to the criterion and exams

• Item set page will show a warning if a Written item set contains OSCE items or the other way around.

• Increasing resolution size of the graph for the benchmark standard set to facilitate more than 5 cohort groups being selected

• Fixed missing examiner and marshal counts on the Dashboard for OSCE exams

• Remove the marking type field from exam settings form once the exam has assigned item set and items. The marking type setting is copied to the items when the item set is allocated.

• Fixed upload template for Hotspot questions.

• Performance improvements of exam preparation.

• Apply correct permissions on "Create item set from selected items" batch operation.

• Apply correct permission on “Download” button for resources.

8.16.3

• Aligned "Delete recordings" button visibility with backend permission checks for deleting recordings and refreshing recording statistics.

• Users with permission to Create item set are permitted to do so using batch operation

• Itemset solver fixes -Ensure that target values as well as upper and lower bounds work correctly when using blueprint constraints to create item sets.

• The blueprint constraint warnings are checked against lower bounds, upper bounds and targets instead of just targets.

• Force update results before reports to enforce current data.

• New Labs feature for prioritising selected sessions in the queue. OSCE exams are prioritised automatically as soon as the session is started. Contact your risr/ team if you wish to test this feature.

 8.16.4

Technical fixes only, adhering to upgraded language versions.

8.16.5

Bug fixes

• Item set solver fix to ensure that items remaining count in a constraint category is correct

8.16.6

Bug fixes

• Fix page jumping when changing selection values in the dropdown component.

• Fixed permission check for View recordings page. Only users with the “Settings - Manage risr/assess” permission are able to delete recordings.

• Performance improvement in component that prepares examinations.

• Download itemset is now using a marksheet section title, which is human readable representation of a section, instead of the previous slugified text.

• Fixed issue where constraint groups on the exam blueprint showed zero available items ina child category, if the parent had a constraint on the blueprint.

8.16.7

Bug fixes

• Prevent automatic the resetting of the prefilter on exam blueprint constraint when viewing pre-filters rather than applying constraints

• Fixed the back link from the Compare variants/languages page.

• Fixed 'Exam Timing' row displaying twice on the exam details page.

Improvements (Will be disabled by default, please talk to your risr/ team to enable these)

• Added 'Reply-To' email field which allows administrators to configure a specific email address that will be used in the 'Reply-To' header of system-generated emails.

• Improved information on background tasks and auto-updates prior to producing reports

• Added ability to set default for section randomization in item sets. If enabled, a new setting is available on the exam blueprint where users can set whether the default setting for item set sections should be randomised or not.

REST API

• Improved REST API documentation for items/ and blueprints/dimensions/

• Added only_fields and exclude_fields to facilitate requests for reduced data set and updated the swagger documentation for them

8.16.8

Bug fixes

• Prevent two different markers submit marks for the same candidate (double marking) at the same time. That could cause the final mark not resolved correctly.

8.16.9

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue whereby user name containing an apostrophe caused an error

• Added missing Answer order settings field back to the blueprint exam settings form.